Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as Les Misérables. Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish. Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
You can read it online for free at Read Print.
The novel is divided into 5 volumes, each volume is divided into books, and then into 365 chapters. The chapters are very short but the novel as a whole is still overall very long (~1200 pages depending on edition).
There are countless adaptations of Les Misérables: film, tv, plays, musicals.
Have you read the novel or seen any of the adaptations?
